Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15420, Abina Fairchild, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. b.
Fairchild Abina
S. 15420
or Abind
or Abind
CONTENTS

2689 Kentucky
Abner Fairchild Hayden in the State of Kentucky was a private in the com pany Captain Robbins of the reg t com pany Col Bernard in the N Carolina for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per ann m to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Feb y 1834 and Heaven M c Whorter
Arrears to the 4th of March 120. 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep t 20. 00 $140. 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam l Boyd Clerk
Vol. 7 Page 4

order to pay, Oct. 17. 1836 -
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 March 1840. to the March 1841 Agt notified 30 th Nov. 1841

29.97 1 Abid Farchild, 3 Declaration.
For Trimble to Johnson
Non R. M. Johnson N R
Spec the Certificate for an year M r Johnson

29.974
Abner Garchilds, Declarations.
for Formable to Johnson
Non R.M. Johnson N.R.
Issue the Certificate for one year M. Johnson

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 14 th of June 1832.
State of Kentucky } County of Floyd } ss.
On this 18 th day of February 1834 personally appeared no open court before the Justices of the Floyd county court now sitting Abner Fairchild , a resident of Kentucky in the county of Floyd aged Seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of the 14 th of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated He resided in Wilks county in the State of North Carolina when he first entered the service as a drafted soldier on or about the 10 th day of October in the year 1778 in a company of North Carolina militia of which John Robbins had been appointed captain He met his company at Wilkborough in Wilks county North Carolina and Captain Robbins not joining us William Gillary the Lieutenant of the company took the command and commanded the company throughout the whole tour William Sutton the ensign acted as Lieutenant and the sergeant whose name to the best of his recollection was Lewis acted as sergeant ensign

2 From Wilkesborough we marched down to Salisbury in Rowan county North Carolina where we lay 3 or 4 days and then marched on to the town of Charlotte in Mecklenburg county where we did not halt but marched directly on to Camden in South Carolina where we halted and staid about a week From Camden we marched and crossed Santee river at Nelsons ferry at the mouth of the Pinelaw Spring branch At Nelsons ferry where we lay one night only we took the right hand road and marched on through Dorchester and came near to Perosburg the head quarters of the North Carolina troops The South Carolina troops were there when we arrived we encamped about a half mile from the town where we remained about six weeks - Colonel John Bevard was the commanding Colonel of the regiment to which his company belonged From the encampment near Perosburg we marched up the Savannah river river to the three Sisters where we staid but a short time when Captain Gillery and his company left the other troops and we marched down the river about 3 miles to a place called the white house where we went as a garrison to guard a ferry on the Savannah river But a few days after his company left the three Sisters General Lincoln having under his command about six thousand regulars as he (as he this applicant was informed) came on to the three Sisters and remained there

but a few days. During our stay at the White House Colonel Sykes having under his command about 200 light horse troops came there and encamped with us one night and next morning left us. Every morning during our stay at the White House a corporal and six men were sent to the ferry as sentinels where they remained until they were relieved by another corporal and six men more. After remaining at the White House to the best of his recollection about six weeks his company was marched around a swamp called the Black Swamp lying near the river to a place called the Turkey hill where the company was discharged on the 10 th of April 1779. His discharge was signed by Captain or Lieutenant William Gillery.
From the 10 th April 1779 to the 1 st June 1780 he was out a volunteer on short excursions receiving orders from Colonel Benjamin Cleveland in what direction to proceed in pursuit of the Tories and if the Tories should be too strong to return and give information to the Colonel so that he could go or send a force sufficient to take them. In these he was accompanied generally by 10 15 or 20 men detached from the men under command of Col Cleveland. In excursions of this

Kind and sometimes serving in service under Col. Cleveland with the other troops of the regiment he was in service a few days over 12 months between the 10 th April 1779 and 1 st June 1780. Sometimes in the counties of Wilks, Burke and Rutherford but mostly in Burke.
In the last of June or 1 st of July 1780 he went as a volunteer and joined Colonel Cleveland at Wilksborough in Wilks county N.C. He was placed in a company by Colonel Cleve- land the names of none of the officers of which he can recollect. Colonel Cleveland had under his command about 200 men. We marched on to Ramour about 10 o'clock A.M. the day of mostly not recollected but he thinks it was between 5 and 10 th July 1780. When we arrived the battle between the Mockingbird troops and the Tories was over and the Tories had been defeated. He then understood that in this battle about One hundred Tories were slain & 200 taken prison- ers - From Ramour he returned home to his residence in Wilks county having been in service about two weeks.
He next went into the service as a volunteer in a company of which William Jackson was Captain. The

Names of the other company officers he does not now recollect. Colonel Benjamin Cleveland was his commanding Colonel. He joined his company at Wilksborough in Wilks county on or about the 1 st day of September 1780. From Wilksborough we marched on to Riders fort in Burke county N. C. where we remained 2 or 3 weeks, and then marched up and crossed the Catawba river at Greenleaf ford near Morgantown. From there we marched to the head of Lane creek a branch of Little Broad river. Between Greenleaf ford and the head of Lane creek we fell in with the Virginia troops under command of Colonel Campbell. From here we marched to Colonel Walker's old place (then so called) on Little Broad river and halted but a very short time. When Colonel Campbell and other Virginia troops were all horsemen and Colonel Cleveland after raising all the horses he could marched on with what mounted soldiers there were and left the footmen about 100 in number to follow on with all possible expedition. From Colonel Walker's old place he the applicant marched on under command of Captain Williams and

Son and crossed Broad river and went down by Buck creek and passed a place called the Cowpens we then passed down Buck Creek some distance and left Buck creek and crossed Broad river again at Cherokee Ford we then marched on to Kings Mountain where and arrived the next day after the battle a little after dark at the encampment of of the American forces about 2 miles from the battle ground Colonel Ferguson Son the commander of the British troops at Kings Mountain was killed and the troops under his command defeated & to the best of his rec- ollection about hundreds of them taken prisoners The battle was fought to the best of his recollection on the 4 th or 5 th of October 1780.
From Kings Mountain we marched back to Colonel Walkers old place & then turned back towards Kings Mountain again to Vickerstaff where remained about 2 days Two men of the tory prisoners were ever sentenced to be hanged nine of these were accordingly executed & the other escaped From Vicker- Staff we again marched to Col Walkers old place Here the

applicant and six or seven other soldiers were left with directions from Colonel Cleveland to bring on a wagon which had been taken at the battle of Kings Mountain and the other troops marched on and left us we went on towards Wilks county and on Cain creek we met 4 or 5 men sent back to assist us with the wagon We then went on to Wilks county with the wagon and he received a discharge signed by Captain Jackson for a 3 months tour. The time when he received this discharge he does not recollect but he is able to state positively that it was 3 months he was in the service 3 months in this tour.
He next went out as a volunteer under John Cleveland a young man the son of Col Cleveland who commanded as Captain He met the company at Wilkesborough on or about the 3 rd of March 1781. and we then marched down (there being about 40 of us under Captain Cleveland) to the old trading fort on the Yadkin river in Rowan and returned from this expedition about the 25 th April 1781. and received no discharge that he recollects written discharge to the best of his recollection He has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person whose testimony

he can procure who can testify to his service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Abner Fairchild
The court then propounded to the said Abner Fairchild the following interrogatories to wit
1. Where and in what year were you born Ans. I was born in the year 1762 in the county of Westmoreland and State of Virginia
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Ans. I have no record of my age - My father had a record of my age but what has become of it since his death. I do not know
3. When were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war & where do you now live
Ans. I lived in Wilks county North Carolina where I resided until about 25 years ago when I removed to Floyd County Ky (where I now reside)

4. How were you called into Service - were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute for whom if a substitute for whom
Ans. In my first term of Service I went as a drafted soldier and in all my subsequent Service as a volunteer I never as a substitute
5 th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services
Ans - These are fully set forth in the body of the Declaration as I am able to do from my recollection
6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans. I never received but 2 discharges that I recollect of The first was given by Capt. William Gillery & the last by Capt. William Jackson both of which were lost many years ago - but in what manner they were lost I do not know or recollect
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can

testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
As I well named the Rev d Elye Ezekiel Stone and John Colborne
we Ezekiel Stone
being the county of Floyd and state of Kentucky and John Colborne residing in the same hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with Abner Fairchild who has sworn to and subscribed the above de- claration that we believe him to seventy one years of age that he is reputed in the neighborhood where he resides and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Rev- olution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ezekiel Stone
John Colborne
and the said Court do hereby de- clare their opinion after the in- vestigation of the matter and after putting the interrogators preserved by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and

Served as he states And the Court for then certifies that it appears to them that Ezekiel Stone who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the county of Floyd and State of Ken- tucky and that John Colwine who has also signed the same is a res- ident in the county of Floyd Ky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
State of Kentucky } County of Floyd } ss.
I Jacob Mayo clerk of the County Court of Floyd County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceed- ings of the said court in the matter of the ap- plication of Abner Harrchilds for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this 18 th day of February 1834 Jacob Mayo

Rev. and 1812 War Section.
Ans QW 1/2
April 29, 1925.
Mrs. N. A. Chrisman Eikeville, Ky.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 15420 , it appears that Abina or Abind or Abiud Fairchild was born in 1762 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
While residing in Wilks County, North Carolina, he served as a private in the North Carolina Troops as follows-
From October 10, 1778 to April 10, 1779 under Lieutenant William Gillery, Colonel John Pervard's Regiment.
From April 10, 1779 to June 1, 1780, he was ordered out on several short tours by Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, amounting in all to twelve months.
From July 1, 1780, two weeks in Colonel Cleveland's Regiment.
From September 1, 1780, three months in Captain

William Jackson's Company, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland's Regiment.
From March 3, 1781 to April 25, 1781 in Captain John Cleveland's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 18, 1834, while a resident of Floyd County, Kentucky.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF Commissioner.
Clt by miss Wilson

P
15420
INVALID.
File No. 15420
Abner Fairchild
Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 121
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Oct 6-1902 Mrs. Harmon S. Fairchild Springfield Ohio
Nov 8-1902 H. S. Fairchild Springfield, O, name appears as Abina nat Abina
May 31-03 - H. S. Fairchild Springfield Ohio - Oct
1909. Inch. 16, To 2" Genl. U.S. A. Monument. XX.
1925 Apr 28 Hist. Soc. mro. N. A. Chrisman Aug. 1925 May 21 Hist. Soc. Phil. D. Swing.

Southern Bank of Kentucky Lexington 8 th Sept 1836
Sir
I enclose the vouchers of Abner Fairchild a pensioner on the roll of this Agency, who has not received his stipend for more than 12 Months
I am very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
J. Milton
Pension Clk
J. L. Edwards Esq,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 24 th , 1841.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," I send Fairchild, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Forty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1840, to the 4 th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
William V. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Springfield High School, Department of Mathematics. Harmon S. Fairchild.
OK
Springfield, Ohio, July 21, 1903.
12000
Hon. J. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.;
Dear Sir:- I will be greatly obliged if you will furnish me the military record of Abner Fairchild who enlisted from North Carolina in the Revolutionary war .
Very truly yours,
N. S. Fairchild. 116 N. Plum.
P. S. The former record you sent me was forwarded to the Ohio Society of the Sons of the Revolution at Cincinnati; and as I desire to have a copy in my possession, I respectfully make the above request. N. S. F.

Springfield High School, Department of Mathematics. Harmon S. Fairchild.
Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1902,
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.;
Dear Sir:- I desire to establish my identity as a Son or Descendant of a Revolutionary soldier. My Father says that his Grandfather enlisted in a New Jersey company late in the war, probably as late as 1781. My Father remembers him well and says that he was called Abind or " Bind ," Fairchild . I have corresponded before on this subject, but so far I have been unable to find a record of Abind ; but the names of Abner, Abijah, and abiel Fairchild appear among the records of New Jersey; but not Abind. Now, I think the matter can be got at this way. The soldier in question drew a pension for his services as a Revolutionary soldier down to the year of his death which occurred about 1848 or 1849. This pension was sent to Paintersville, Johnson County, Kentucky. Should not your office contain a record of such pension transaction? I will be greatly obliged if you will see that this matter is thoroughly looked into. There has been some doubt as to whether his name was really Abind ; but there is no doubt that he drew a pension as a soldier of the Revolutionary War and that it was sent to Paintersville, Johnson County Ky. I shall be very grateful for your assistance in this matter. Very truly yours, Harmon S. Fairchild

KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WILLIAM E. CONNELLEY, SECRETARY TOPEKA
Rev Sec con 1
August 23, 1917.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir:-
Abiud Fairchild was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from North Carolina. His pension declaration and all the papers in his application for a pension are on file in the Bureau of Pensions. I made copies of them in the summer of 1902, while I was stationed in Washington as a Special Examiner for the Commissioner of Pensions.
The name of Abiud Fairchild is difficult to make out from the papers on file. It is a very unusual name. I did not decipher it correctly. I wrote it Abind , which it seems to be. I printed it that way in my book, The Founding of Harman's Station . This soldier was my great-great grandfather, and I knew he was spoken of by the older people of Eastern Kentucky as "Bide" Fairchild. As I have been a resident of Kansas since 1881, and as it is difficult to get people to write, I was unable to get the proper spelling of the name. I find that some of the soldier's descendants are named for him, and that they write the name Abiad . But the correct spelling of the name---the way he spelled it---is Abiud---Abiud Fairchild.
it never appears so in claim
I am writing this in the hope that it will assist those of his descendants who shall look up the record in the future. I respectfully request that you file this statement with the pension papers of this Revolutionary soldier, Abiud Fairchild. He has many hundreds of descendants, mostly in Eastern Kentucky, but scattered to every State in the Union. They will wish to examine his record, and I desire that they get the name correctly spelled.
Respectfully,
William E. Connelley

Rev. War Section.
August 28, 1917.
Mr. William E. Connelly, Kansas State Historical Society, Memorial Bldg., Topeka, Kansas.
Sir:
In compliance with your request of the twenty-third instant, relative to the pension claim of Abiyd Fairchild, Survivor's File No. 15420 Rev. War, you are advised that your letter has been filed in said claim, for the benefit of this Bureau and any descendants of the soldier who may examine his papers in the future.
Very respectfully,
A handwritten signature in cursive, appearing to read "J. M. Sawyer", written in dark ink on the line provided for the signature.
Commissioner.

Pikeville, Ky Feb 28 - 1925
Mr Washington Gardner Revolutionary War Pension Bureau of Pensions. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:
Please advise me if you have pension record of Thomas Connelly who served in the 1 st South Carolina regiment commanded by Charles C. Pinckney in the defense of Charleston in the year of 1779-80 - He was a resident of

4 March 1834 - Certificate being issued on the 27 th day of March 1834.
These men are ancestors of mine and I will appreciate it very much if you will advise as to their names records as promptly as possible.
Very truly yours, Mrs N. A. Christensen

Guilford Co. N. Carolina.
Also please give me the pension record of Abner Fairchild who was born in Westmoreland County Virginia in 1762. At the time of the Revolutionary war he lived in Wilks County North Carolina and enlisted on Oct. 10. 1778. He was discharged on April 25 1781. His application for pension was made on the 18 th of February 1834. His pension was allowed at the rate of $40 per year - to commence on the fourth day

PHIL D. SWING, 11TH DIST. CALIFORNIA
COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS
Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
508 Commonwealth Bldg., San Diego, Calif. May 15, 1925.
Hon. Wilder S. Metcalf, Commissioner of Pensions, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
My dear Sir:
I am making an effort to obtain the military record of one Abind Fairchild, a soldier from North Carolina who served in the American Revolutionary War.
I do not know whether or not you have such records in your Bureau, but if you do I would appreciate it if you could send me a copy of this man's record.
Very truly yours,
S-w